The schemes of telephone scammers are striking in their cynicism and inhumanity. The criminals are not stopped by either the merits or the age of the victims.
Thus, it became known that the scammers got through to a 13-year-old child, after which he transferred Br20 thousand.
BELTA reported the incident with reference to the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee.
As the investigation revealed, the phone rang shortly before the child’s mother arrived.
The unknown person introduced himself as an employee of a mobile operator.
The caller reported that someone was trying to take out a loan using the teenager's phone number.
To make the point, the “operator” threatened the teenager with a message that his bank card was involved in a criminal money transfer scheme.
The attacker then convinced the child to provide codes from the SMS, allegedly to check for the presence of loans already issued.
Having threatened to conduct a search at the place of residence and in order to preserve the savings stored at home, the fraudster persuaded the child to transfer all the cash to a “safe” account.
As a result, the teenager took more than $5 thousand stored at home and transferred it through an information kiosk to the scammers’ account.
Investigators have opened a criminal case on the fact of fraud.
Law enforcement officials are asking parents to warn their children about fraudulent schemes when giving them bank cards and phone numbers registered in their name.
